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All Quotes by author - Saint Augustine

" A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. "

" Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood. "

" Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. "

" Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. "

" By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity. "

" Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. "

" Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. "

" Custom is second nature. "

" Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? "

" Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. "

" Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. "

" Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. "

" Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. "

" Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. "

" Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. "

" God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. "

" God is best known in not knowing him. "

" God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. "

" God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. "

" Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt. "

" Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. "

" Hear the other side. "

" He fashioned hell for the inquisitive. "

" He that is jealous is not in love. "

" He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king. "

" He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. "

" He who labours, prays. "

" Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. "

" If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? "

" I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. "

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